Donut Magnets Outside Poles for More Motion

Papa Bale shows an eight-inch disc floating on top of another eight-inch disc, with nothing in between them. Three powerful donut magnets are placed on the outside poles, all opposing and pushing away from the disc rather than pulling toward it. He gives the disc a little nudge to start it spinning. It doesn't go for very long, but it goes longer than it was supposed to. He experiments with different configurations, trying two magnets on one pole and one on another to see if a clever arrangement helps. Papa Bale notes that the big ring magnets are something more powerful, and he considers adding three more donut magnets to use the rest of the poles. He demonstrates how even a tiny flick of his finger gets the disc moving, and something is definitely happening with the magnetic assist. He observes that as for perpetual motion, not with this setup and not with anything stationary. You can't be stationary and therefore it can't be free. He's trying to use gravity in various ways, like putting a smaller disc underneath a larger one, which is still using gravity whether to your advantage or not. He adds a bigger rectangle magnet to the disc and gives it a spin. The wobble is terrible because it's off balance with just one magnet on one side. But he can see that when the disc reaches the magnets on the outside, it gets an extra push to the next magnet. He concludes he'll order three more donut magnets to complete the setup.